Excerpt: As God lays something on your heart, you won’t be able to shake it. He’ll keep bringing it to mind. It may be he wants you to help a neighbor, invite a friend to church, or something as big as starting a business. Whatever God is speaking to you, the more you respond to his “still small voice,” the louder and more assured you will be of what he is asking you to do. The amazing part of all this is that God doesn’t demand of you and me. He simply invites us into a relationship with him. That invitational approach will follow you the rest of your life as he extends one invite after another to trust him.

Excerpt: Jesus showed us that we need to be in alignment with God’s will and purpose in heaven and pray to that end here on earth. Allowing God to redirect you is allowing God’s will to be done in your life as it is in heaven. Allow God to pull your heart into the auto show of heaven and align your heart with his heart for you.

Excerpt: As you hear God’s Word, read God’s Word, and study God’s Word, you can meditate on God’s Word in your mind. If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate.

This is how you renew your mind and create a life you love. This process is what it means to live by faith that is not just in your head or heart, but a faith that is lived out through your daily habits. So we can say the life we now live is one completely by faith. We have to be careful not to try to live it in our own power but through the help of the Holy Spirit working in and through us.

Excerpt: To create a life that is going somewhere instead of nowhere, start by putting God first each and every day. Ask him what he has for you for the day. Allow him to direct each and every step. If we do this, we won’t get to the end of our lives and find ourselves in a place we never thought we’d be.

Excerpt: We need Jesus, first of all, to be our source of strength. We need each other to help us grow and get through the tough times. What’s most amazing is that you are more resilient than you think. When you’re spiritually healthy, you can produce a life that brings life to those around you as you find your strength in Jesus.

Excerpt: We have to find a way to find our encouragement in God each and every day before we go about our day, or we will never have what we need to give out to others. One of the best ways to do that is to spend time with God before you get your day going.

Scripture:

David was greatly distressed; but [he] encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

Excerpt: You can live a life for God and for others. That’s not a life you “have” to live as though it were a burden. That is a life you “get” to live as a blessing to others.

Scripture:

11 Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God. 12 So two good things will result from this ministry of giving—the needs of the believers in Jerusalem will be met, and they will joyfully express their thanks to God.

Excerpt: A life spent living for myself is a wasted life. It’s a waste of time and resources; it’s a waste of love.

Scripture:

The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

Excerpt: Each of us has a purpose for our life. God created you specifically to be able to fulfill the plan and purpose he has for your life. God has not given up on the gift he placed in your hands. Don’t give up on the gift, either.

Excerpt: Walking worthy of God’s purpose for your life isn’t about whether you have what it takes to live for God. Walking worthy of God’s purpose is not about if you are enough, adequate, or even the best qualified. Walking worthy simply means you give your time, your energy, your health, and your energy to walking out God’s purpose in your life. “Walk worthy” means you make God’s purpose your goal, you take people with you, and you raise awareness for God’s glory and for the benefit of others.

Scripture:

"...that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;"